YEVSTAFYEV: IN VOTING FOR TRUMP, AMERICA VOTED AGAINST
PRINCIPLES OF GLOBALIZATION; THAT ERA IS WANING, AND SAFETY NET IS
NOT LARGE ENOUGH TO KEEP GLOBAL ECONOMY AFLOAT ONCE IT DOES END

TWO FACES OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM. (By Dmitry Yevstafyev.
Ekspert, Nov. 14, 2016, p. 23. Complete text:) The outcome
of the US [presidential] election probably doesn’t mean that the US
has finally split into small-town America and postmodern America -
a division that emerged in the 1990s and has been becoming
increasingly pronounced. [Democratic presidential candidate]
Hillary Clinton and [US president-elect] Donald Trump showed
Americans - but most important, the whole world - two faces, two
models of American capitalism. The first is American globalist
capitalism, which the world has by now grown accustomed to and is
based on American military and political hegemony, both of which
depend on the nature of allied relations. The second is Trump
capitalism - at least the way [capitalism] was formulated by the
businessman-showman, demonstrating the priority of internal, not
external sources of US might - which means redirecting resources to
restructuring domestic obligations and alleviating the most painful
symptoms of modern America’s ill health.

Trump’s slogan, "Make America Great Again," meant essentially
one thing: Right now, as of 2016, America is not great in the sense
and to the extent that a sole superpower should be great. And some
time is needed so that, after putting its house in order, it can
once again demonstrate its greatness to the whole world. Attempts
to read any signs of isolationism in Trump are naive. Basically,
the difference between Clinton’s and Trump’s positions was simple:
global leadership today or the day after tomorrow. However, both
have something in common: the great-power present. If you have any
doubt, just read the US president-elect’s Gettysburg speech, which
will probably soon be considered historic.

However, the problem is not that Americans showed ...

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